PAID

The reason for completing personal stories in the later stages of the game is simple: the quality of rewards is significantly better.

While affection levels play a significant role in increasing rewards later on, let’s be honest—that mainly applies to low-spending or free-to-play players.

If you're a top-tier spender, showering gifts and maxing out affection early through extensive gacha pulls is entirely possible.

Even so, even those who epitomize exploitative capitalism would still say, “Personal stories are best tackled in the later stages.”

“Once you’re in the late game, you can skip the early story arcs.”@@novelbin@@

In their first playthrough, most players raising Lee Yuri would endure her slow-paced early game story, tearfully exclaiming, “My poor Lee Yuri! Hngh!”

For example, Lee Yuri, who had just enrolled in the academy, juggled multiple part-time jobs to pay off debts and tuition.

Comforting Lee Yuri after she’d collapsed against a lamppost, exhausted from a rude customer’s verbal abuse.

Tracking down that same rude customer to teach them a lesson.

Subtly sharing information about dungeons that offer high rewards.

Covering her shifts when she dozed off from exhaustion.

Helping with legal matters when debt collectors showed up at her home.

In essence, the patron played the role of Lee Yuri’s “guardian angel.”

Sure, Lee Yuri’s story is great.

But if you’ve already experienced it once and are on your second playthrough, repeating that sluggish early storyline again?

No thanks. Especially when there are more characters to care for than just Lee Yuri.

For those players, the solution is simple: focus on affection farming, power through, and unlock the personal story in the late game.